Our new garden construction has been called many things. Vege Garden, allotment, Elizabethan Garden and potager. I’m pleased to announce it’s official name is the Domestic Executive Kitchen Garden. This is the third element of the Backyard Pantry... I’m sure you wouldn’t like it if you were dressed in shorts and sent outside without sun screen or a sweater on a summers day in Wellington. It would be both chilly around the knees and potential for sunstroke in a flash. My vegetable seedlings feel... Few things in life give greater pleasure to a basset than a pile of mud. A place to put their pudgy paws and indulge in a spot of sniffing or digging. The softer the mud the better it is but as mud goes they’ll pretty much take anything. With the... Just as I think I’m learning the lessons of building and living in the country something comes along and makes me realise I’m such an amateur. Despite my best efforts to think ahead and have a plan for every eventuality something always happens. ... There is nothing more satisfying seeing a building project come to fruition. Especially when its not me doing the building. The kitchen garden construction has really taken shape although for a moment I think that the plans must have been misread. I was... 